wireless woes

I have a netgear DG834GT wireless router, which works fine. Pc connected via
ethernet cable. A laptop runs fine on a netgear WG111T usb adapter. I am
trying to add another desktop to the network with another usb WG111T, but on
the "about" part of the netgear setup, it displays the IP address as
0.0.0.0. (can't mind how many 0's). There does not appear to be any method
of changing this in the netgear panel. I was wondering if it's a Windows
thing? (XP sp2). All settings on the netgear panel apart from IP address are
identical to the laptop settings. Thanks for any help.




Carl

Carl wrote:
> netgear DG834GT wireless router works fine.
> laptop runs fine on a netgear WG111T usb adapter.
> ...trying to add another desktop ...with another usb WG111T
> ...it displays the IP address as 0.0.0.0. (can't mind how many 0's)

Four zeros (as in "dotted quad")

> [no] method of changing this in the netgear panel

Are you using DHCP? In which case, your new wireless adapter
will not have a valid IP address until you have finished the
setup and it has contacted the DHCP server in the router
- and is that set up to lease more than one simultaneously?

If you want to assign addresses manually, check the WG111T
panel to make sure DHCP is _not_ selected which may enable
an IP entry option, though the following suggests not:

> All settings on the netgear panel apart from IP address
> are identical to the laptop settings

Let us know if that idea helps

LenW

I'll give that a go today sometime. let you know. ta